Oiler



E. L. RAND.

(No Model.)

OILBR.

,Patented'Aug. 30. 1887.

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.- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDSON LUCIAN RAND, OF GOFFSTOVN, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

OILER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,125, dated August 30, 1887.

Application filed June 23, 1887.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDsoN LUCIAN RAND,

' of Goifstown, in the county of Hillsborongh,

of the State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oilers; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 a verticaland longitudinal section; and Fig. 3, a bottom view, of an oiler provided with my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented.

Hy improvement has reference to oilers with spring or elastic bottoms, and is for effecting the springing in or inward movement of the bottom by a person while grasping the handles of the oiler.

In the drawings, A denotes the conical can, 13 the spout or 'eduction-tube, and O the handle of the oiler, the elastic bottom of the can being shown at a.

A lever, D, fulcrumed to the can at or near its bottom, has one arm projected underneath the bottom and furnished with a leather disk or head, b, to bear against the central part of the said bottom. The other arm of the lever extends within the handle, which is hollow, and is connected to an actuator, E, consisting of a rod extending down and sliding freely within the handle, and provided at top with a button or hood, 0. When the handle is grasped by a person and the oiler is turned down or inverted, by pressing the thumb on the hood 0 the lever may be moved so as to spring inward the elastic bottom of the can and cause a flow of oil from the tube B. The leather disk is to prevent wear of the can-bottom by the lever while being worked by the actuator.

Serial No. 242,223. (No model.)

The handle at its upper end is bent upward, as shown at d, and extended into a socket, e, projectingfrom the can, the lower part of the handle being held to the can by aspring-latch, f, extending from the can into the handle and catching into a slot, 9, made therein. The handle is further held in place by two angular pieces,z' t,'arranged in the lower part, 7c, of the oiler, and extended through such part, and covered by a cross-piece, it, such angular pieces being soldered to the handle and the part 7r, they, where projecting outwardly beyond the part It, being covered by the said cross-piece h, which is fastened to the handle.

I claim a 1. The combination, with the oil-can having a handle and an elastic bottom, of a lever pivoted to the can and extending under the bottom and into the handle, and of an actuator for such lever, arranged within and extending from the handle at its upper part, all being essentially as represented.

2. The combination, with the can provided with the socket e, and at bottom with the spring-latch f, of the handle bent at top to enter the said socket and having at bottom the slot to engage with the latch.

3. The combination of the angular pieces 2' i, applied to and extended through the lower part, k, of the can, as specified, and secured or soldered thereto and to the handle, with the cross-piece extending over the parts of such pieces '5 z'against the handle and soldered to such handle, all being substantially as represented.

EDSON LUGIAN RAND. [L s] Witnesses:

SAMUEL UPTON, J AMES B. GoVE. 

